Could Tom Riddle really build a following in school

Aug 04, 2020 16:37


As we all know the books left a lot of questions unanswered. So many things are contradictory and just flat out don't make any sense.

I've often thought about Tom Riddle's time at Hogwarts and those memories that Dumbledore showed Harry. Many of the things Dumbles told Harry didn't make any sense. Worse some of the reasons he gave Harry for the ( Read more... )

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dorea_ysleen August 6 2020, 16:41:54 UTC

What if it's not purity of blood that the Slytherins actually care about, but wizarding traditions? In Madame Malkin's Draco tells Harry that muggleborns shouldn't be allowed at Hogwarts because "they don't know our ways".

In my head canon, it's a rather recent development that only muggle holidays are observed at Hogwarts - especially the commercial version of Halloween, which isn't even that old. Sure, some of that could have happened before segregation, when lots of wizards would have known and maybe observed/pretended to observe the Christian holidays, but what if afterwards they went back to the older celebrations, like yule, samhain, beltane and so on.

Then suddenly they have muggle holidays, muggle studies (instead of or surviving the termination of wizading culture classes), History of Magic becomes a joke... and everyone who has a problem with that is obviously a bigotted racist. I mean it seems like nowadays muggleborns arrive at Hogwarts already disregarding wizarding traditions and villainising/looking down on people who care. That would of course breed resentment and give the few actual racists lots of arguments.

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